Johann Shmidt (Earth-13122)

Red Skull
Name	Johann Shmidt
Current Alias	Red Skull
Aliases	Codenames: Iron Skull Other Aliases: Herr Schmidt
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Hydra Formerly Red Collection, Thanos, Ultron (Earth-78362), Obadiah Stane (Earth-91334), Loki, Doctor Doom, Advanced Idea Mechanics
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Hair	No Hair At All
Unusual Features	His face looks like a red skull.
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-13122
Personal Information
Identity	Public
Citizenship	German
Occupation	Would-be conqueror, terrorist
Base of Operations	Hydra base
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Mark Hoffmeier
First	LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (October 22, 2013)
First	LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (October 22, 2013)

 I am the Red Skull, while you are all merely numbskulls. 

—Red Skull

History

World War II

The leader of Hydra, Shmidt led Hydra into World War II, having acquired the Tesseract. When Captain America and Bucky Barnes stormed Shmidt's base, Shmidt and Zola eventually fled once the two made their way upward. Despite Zola wanting to leave immediately, Skull and Cap confronted each other head-on.

Eventually, the power of the Tesseract consumed him, causing him to vanish in a confrontation with Captain America.

Cosmic Brick Crisis

Having returned through unknown means Red Skull was among several supervillains who worked with Doctor Doom to track down all of the Cosmic Bricks, which were fragments of the Silver Surfer's shattered Surfboard, allowing Doom to both save and conquer the Earth. The Red Skull was freed from the Raft by Sabretooth and tracked down one of the Cosmic Bricks,bringing it back to his HYDRA base. Together, he worked with Arnim Zola and Loki to build a portal to Asgard out of an arc reactor that Loki stole. Upon the base being infiltrated by Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Human Torch, Loki blasted the three with his sceptre, knocking Black Widow and Hawkeye out. After Loki left the base to return to Asgard, Captain America entered the base, teaming up with Human Torch. Red Skull alternated between fighting Captain America directly and letting Arnim Zola activate laser cannons, which Captain America and Human Torch were able to disable.Eventually, Wolverine showed up and tripped Red Skull into the portal, destroying it and electrocuting Red Skull. Shmidt was then taken into custody, along with Zola and the other Hydra agents.

Maximum Overload

He was one of Loki's controlled villains through the Nornfrost.

Somehow, Red Skull eventually managed to steal one of Iron Man's armor, turning into Iron Skull.

Climate Conundrum

Because Hydra decided to create a syndicate, Johann was temporarily expelled from Hydra for failing several times in command. He later partnered with A.I.M. to use Tony Stark's weather machine. With the help of Justin Hammer, AIM managed to steal the machine and Red Skull would be able to carry out his plan to use it to dominate the world. His plans would be thwarted by the Avengers who destroyed the climate machine.

Time Twisted

Red Skull returned to command Hydra, and allied with Thanos to steal the Ant-Van and travel through time with it. After the theft of the Van, the two villains recruit Obadiah Stane from the past to fight the Avengers. Then Red Skull would go back to the past, at the time he was defeated by Captain America, to get the Tesseract, but would end up helping his past self defeat Captain America and go back to the future without the Tesseract. After Ultron's recruitment of the past, the villains would fight the Avengers who discovered the location of the Hydra base. They would be defeats being shrunk by Ant-Man.

Code Red

In unknown ways, the Red Skull managed to return to its original size and, together with the rest of Hydra, attacked New York and was soon stopped by the Avengers. Taking advantage of Natasha being distracted by her father, he escaped, but was soon kidnapped by a Collector robot and placed in his collection. He would later be freed by the Avengers and taken into custody by S.H.I.E.L.D.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

• Iron Skull Armor

Weapons

• Gun
• Grenades

Notes

• In LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, Red Skull can be bought for 200,000 studs.
• Steve Blum is the voice of Red Skull in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes. Chi McBride is the voice in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Maximum Overload. Liam O'Brien is the voice in LEGO Marvel's Avengers. Alex Zahara is the voice in LEGO Marvel Avengers: Climate Conundrum and LEGO Marvel Avengers: Time Twisted. Liam O'Brien is the voice in LEGO Marvel Avengers: Code Red.

See Also

• 10 appearance(s) of Johann Shmidt (Earth-13122)
• 1 minor appearance(s) of Johann Shmidt (Earth-13122)
• 11 image(s) of Johann Shmidt (Earth-13122)
• 2 quotation(s) by or about Johann Shmidt (Earth-13122)